Underpaid and shoved in a corner: Are Liverpool’s Jazz musicians ready to take centre stage?

‘Having a Black house band, and Black musicians together on stage in Liverpool right now, is rare.’

Dear readers — What if a jam session put musicians first, audiences second? You’d be forgiven for expecting any of the following: self-indulgence; long proggy improvisational sections; flights of experimentation that verge on the abrasive. But none of that is in evidence at The Wombat Jam — where we sent writer Ophira Gottlieb last Wednesday. Instead, she found a community based on collaboration and (quite literally) harmony, hidden in a tiny indoor jungle. Read about it below, after The Post briefing.